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Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor (Kluger), a daughter of Jewish emigres (Honigmann), a daughter of an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter of German refuges from East Prussia (Duckers). Placed outside of the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by means of...

The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers -- including Langland, Gower, Barclay,...

This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts,...

The debate on the use and drawbacks of the sociology of literature unleashed by Bourdieu's seminal work "The Rules of Art" was mainly conducted here on an abstract level. The present volume contains a collection of papers sounding out the applicability of field theory to literary studies. The authors, from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, present theory-led textually based analyses of the present-day literature and culture business.

With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates...

Literature and science are two disciplines are two disciplines often thought to be unrelated, if not actually antagonistic. But Robert J. Scholnick points out that these areas of learning, up through the beginning of the nineteenth century, "were understood as parts of a unitary endeavor." By mid-century they had diverged, but literature and science have continued to interact, conflict, and illuminate each other. In this innovative work, twelve leaders in this emerging interdisciplinary field explore the long engagement of American writers with science and uncover science's conflicting...

Das deutsche 18. Jahrhundert gilt, ausgelost durch das kulturanthropologische Interesse am 'ganzen Menschen', zunehmend als eine Epoche der Entdeckung der Korpersprache und der naturlichen Schauspielkunst, die die rhetorisch bestimmte Schauspielaktion ablost. Demgegenuber ist die Tatsache, dass es sich um verschriftlichte Korpersprache handelt, bis jetzt vernachlassigt worden, so dass die Regiebemerkungen kaum eingehender untersucht wurden. Eine Leitthese der vorliegenden Studie ist, dass mit der Literarisierung des Dramas im 18. Jahrhundert auch eine Entwicklung hin zur literarischen...

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism*
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*
*A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*

Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects--music, literature,...

Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space, and so urgently the place of writing - the place where one may remain, avoid speaking or naming, yet speak from? Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, this book addresses these questions and speaks to the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.

The first volume to draw together a significant range of the applications of the 'threshold', the book is located naturally on the threshold between...

Dem Werk Adalbert Stifters (1805-1868) gilt seit langerer Zeit verstarkte Aufmerksamkeit der Literaturwissenschaft; die alteingeburgerten Lese- und Zuordnungsmuster brechen auf. Dieses Buch enthalt die Beitrage eines Adalbert-Stifter-Symposions, welches ein breites Spektrum neuer literaturwissenschaftlicher Zugange mit Analysen der malerischen und zeichnerischen Bestrebungen Stifters sowie seiner konservatorischen und padagogischen Intentionen zusammenfuhrte. Kunstpraxis und Asthetik Stifters in den verschiedenen Bereichen seines Schaffens sollen neu vergleichbar und hinsichtlich ihrer...

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Auswahl stehen deutsche Kreuzzugsdichtungen des Mittelalters. Beispiele aus dem Mittellateinischen, Altprovenzalischen, Altfranzosischen und Italienischen sollen zeigen, dass es sich hier um keine nationalen, sondern um christlich-abendlandische Dichtungsformen handelt; den romanischen Texten sind zur Erleichterung des Verstandnisses Paraphrasen beigegeben. Einige historische Zeugnisse sollen den allgemeinen Hintergrund andeuten.

William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner's racial concerns but extended them beyond the South to encompass the entire nation. Though Hemingway wrote extensively about Native Americans and African Americans, always in the back of his mind was Africa. Dudley sees Hemingway's fascination with, and eventual push...

Mehrsprachigkeit ist kein literarisches Randphanomen: In allen literarischen Epochen, Gattungen und Traditionen gibt es mehrsprachige Texte. Besonders in der Literatur der Moderne gilt Mehrsprachigkeit als ein Kennzeichen hoher Sprachreflexivitat. Was aber ist literarische Mehrsprachigkeit? Wie lasst sie sich beschreiben und deuten? Mit welchen kommunikativen und asthetischen Zielen wird sie eingesetzt? Die Studie untersucht den Sprachwechsel als eine manifeste Form literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit an Elias Canettis "Die Stimmen von Marrakesch" und Ingeborg Bachmanns Erzahlung "Simultan." In...